Depression rates surge in adolescence, particularly among females. Recent findings
suggest that depressed adolescents are characterized by hypersensitivity to negative …

The prevalence of depression increases substantially during adolescence. Several
predictors of major depressive disorder have been established, but their predictive power is …

Depression has been characterized in recent years in terms of deficits in positive affect and
an underactive approach-related motivational system. Consistent with this view, behavioral …

The feedback negativity (FN) and reward positivity (RewP) are event-related brain potentials
(ERPs) that follow the presentation of negative and positive feedback information …

Background A blunted reward positivity (RewP), an event-related potential elicited by
feedback indicating monetary gain relative to loss, was recently shown to prospectively …

Depressive symptoms have long been associated with abnormalities in neural processing of
reward. However, no review has yet consolidated evidence of such deficits in adolescent …

Depression is a major public health concern, and the period from late childhood through
early adolescence is a critical time in the development of depressive symptoms. In adults …

Blunted reward processing both characterizes major depressive disorder and predicts
increases in depressive symptoms. However, little is known about the interaction between …

Depression is characterized by altered sensitivity to rewards, with recent evidence
suggesting that the ability to sustain responses to rewards across long experimental tasks is …

Objective Although impaired reward processing in depression has been well-documented,
the exact nature of that deficit remains poorly understood. To investigate the link between …